Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-06-23
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention,

Japanese napkins at Dorman's.
Monograms in rubber at 721 Chapel street
John Lane was arrested last night for
vagrancy.
Colonel William q. Stevenson was in
town yesterday.
Harper's for July is received and for sale
by T. II. Pease & Son.
H. G. Chase and family of Chicago are at
Mrs. Sanford's, 1874 York street.
The work on the sewer through Bishop
street NEW parD is well advanced.
Mrs. William A. Countryman, of Hart
ford, is visiting at her mothers in Fair
Haven.
Prizes to the value of $4O0 will be given
at the bicycle tournament at Springfield on
the Fourth of July.
The Dwight Place church and Sunday
school have their annual picnic at High
Rock Grove on Saturday next.
DR.. Woolsey johnson, brother of Mrs.
Or. William H. Carmalt of this city, died on
Tuesday in New York, aged forty-fve years.
Mr.. G. D. Kinney, the mason builder, hes
the walls up and roof on for the new large
addition to the Peck Brothers mandatory.
On July 81 Nathan Hale camp, Sons of
Veterans, will give TT excursion to Glen
Island. The Woman's Relief corps of the
g. A. R. will go along.
The fair and festival at the Episcopal
church in West Haven, which was opened
Tuesday night, closed last night, having
been very successfully attended.
Rev. Mr.. Archibald, of Iowa, is in town
with his wife and children. They are visit
ing at the house of Mrs. Archibald's parents,
NJ. and Mrs. Charles A. Warren.
The Evening Sun claims that Norwalk
girls in addressing letters to their male
friends afix the letters &c. Y. K.," which
means ''consider yourself kissed"
The frame for the new residence of Mr..
William E. Downes, of Derby, on Whit
ney avenue is up. 1t WI be one of the
largest horses on this fiue avenue.
Last evening President and Mrs. Dwight
gave reception in Dwight hall to the facul-
ty and students of the university, who were
invited to meet DIR. and Mrs. Barbour.
Funeral services over the remains Of JOS
eph D. French, the twelve year old son of
Joseph R. French, principal of the Skinner
school, will be held to-day from "a Whitney
avenue.
Mrs. R. D. Gable of Westport, who was
seriously injured few days ago by being
thrown from carriage, is improving and
the attending physician gives hopes of her
recovery.
This afternoon at the Calvary Baptist
church Miss Clara Sands, who has recently
returned from japan, will address the New
Haven Women's Baptist. Foreign Missionary
conference.
D. Fl. Walker has assumed the agency in
New York of the California Associated
Press. He was formerly city editor of the
New Haven Union and later employed on the
San Francisco Bulletin.
West Haven has at last new postmaster.
George II. Thomas has received the appoint
ment. He YVES assistant postmaster under
Frederick w. Bishop, who resigned on
count of his removing to this city.
The class of '87 of the South Norwalk
High school will hold their graduating exer-
cises in Music Hall this evening. Friday
evening they will give full dress reception,
for which nearly five hundred invitations
have been issued.
The clever verses entitled ''The Veterans
on Parade" signed ~. NJ. H." and pub
lished in our issue of the Goth, were the pro-
duction of one of our out-of-town CORE
spondents, who occasionally expresses his
thoughts in poetic form.